Steve Bannon has been spending a LOT of time in the last 3 months in Europe.
Posted an article under the Bannon thread Friday which covered not just his involvement in Italy's recent vote, but more generally.

No country likes it when foreign diplomats or foreign governments meddle in their domestic politics. Most countries, Germany included, are generally perfectly happy to meddle in the domestic politics of other countries.

The ambassador in question, however, is most certainly a cretin.

"I don't give a fuck whether we're peers or not."
--Lord Thomas Henry Bingham to Boris Johnson, on being asked whether he would miss being in "the best club in London" if the Law Lords moved from Parliament to a Supreme Court.

No country likes it when foreign diplomats or foreign governments meddle in their domestic politics. Most countries, Germany included, are generally perfectly happy to meddle in the domestic politics of other countries.

Emmanuel Macron has called on other members of the G7 to stand up to Donald Trump’s trade policies in the face of what he described as the threat of a new US “hegemony”.

The French president was speaking alongside the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who is hosting the G7 summit in Quebec amid sharp disagreements between the US president and the six other leaders of industrialized liberal democracies over trade, climate change and the nuclear deal with Iran.

Macron called on other G7 leaders not to water down a joint communique at the end of the summit, at the expense of shared values, simply in an effort to win Trump’s signature, warning that a “G6 plus one” outcome was possible.